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One man's struggle against impermanence
John Wilkins is an eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and worked at the University of Queensland, in Australia, before taking up a research fellowship at the University of Sydney. After a varied career, involving factories, gardening, civil service, publishing, graphics, public relations but not, unfortunately for the CV, driving a truck, John finally completed his thesis on species concepts in 2004, which he has worked into two books.
This blog is designed evolved to host any random thoughts that happen to be passing through my forebrain at a given moment. So there will be errors...
I also have an Australia-focussed blog: The Drought Resistant Philosopher
The previous instantiation of this blog is accessible here.
December 30, 2006
Category: Creationism
Brent Rasmussen, at Unscrewing the Inscrutable, has a nice smackdown of the atheism-intolerance of Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College and Distinguished Scholar of the City University of New York, with which...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 7:49 AM • 101 Comments •
December 25, 2006
Category: Humor
For those of you still in December 25, a short reminder of the meaning of this holiday. There was an individual who was born today, many years ago. His life and work changed the world. He inspired millions of...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 10:04 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Larry Moran, at Sandwalk, has argued that evolution is indeed a matter of chance. It is, he thinks, something that atheism requires. This is an interesting issue, one that has deep roots, both in the role of chance explanations...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 6:57 PM • 16 Comments •
December 24, 2006
Category: Creationism
It's a season, so I am told, that has something to do with religion. We celebrate the birth of commodity capitalism, or something. So I thought I would combine my favourite issues - philosophy, religion and evolution. It's all...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 8:46 AM • 7 Comments •
December 23, 2006
Category: Evolution
My mate Marc Buhler noticed this one: This week's issue of Science magazine has an article that is the subject of a story (pasted below the fold) from the NY Times....
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 2:02 AM • 6 Comments •
December 21, 2006
Category: Philosophy of Science
Sayeth the Deepak Oracle: A number of evolutionary biologists are attempting to create a more holistic integral view of evolution that includes both objective and subjective dimensions of reality. I don't claim to know what "reality" is, but I'm pretty...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 12:17 AM • 10 Comments •
December 20, 2006
Category: Politics
George Bush wants a bigger military. Cynical as I am about the claims of the "military-industrial complex" of a generation ago, it really does look like the underlying motivation for the past decade or so has been to increase the...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 9:24 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Humor
Once, in a previous incarnation (where I was not so furry, fat and albinoish), I ruled a graphics department. We had the IT staff try to convince us to go Windows about every six months instead of Mac, for about...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 12:22 AM • 5 Comments •
December 19, 2006
Category: Politics
As PZ McMyers notes, the Libyan court has condemned to death five nurses and a doctor for infecting children with AIDS deliberately as part of an experiment, despite the clear scientific evidence that the real cause was pre-existing strains of...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 10:45 PM • 1 Comments •
December 18, 2006
Category: General Science
I stumbled on this amazingly useful website just now, when trying to work out who our nearest extragalactic neighbours were (and what they were getting up to - it seems we are the cause of a lot of domestic disputes)....
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 8:57 PM • 6 Comments •
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